UK Affiliate Networks

Independent UK Affiliate Programs

eBay.co.uk

eBay logoThe eBay affiliate program used to be managed by Commission Junction, but since April 2008 eBay have moved to handling their affiliate program in house. The eBay affiliate umbrella includes the following affiliate programs - eBay UK, eBay US, eBay Belgium, eBay Canada, eBay Singapore, eBay India, eBay Honk Kong, eBay France, eBay Spain, eBay Italy, eBay NL and eBay Australia. It also includes the US based half.com program.

Tell me more about the program

The program is well thought out with lots of options. The Dashboard allows you to see at a glance which programs are working for your site, and reports can be itemised by day, campaign, tool / creative and program. You can also download the raw transaction data for use in your own data analysis or spreadsheet program.

Linking Options

It is easy to build a list of "campaigns". These are different areas of the eBay site that you are accessing. eg, I have one site that provides information about Luella bags - I have a separate campaign which identifies clicks and actions from this site, so I can tell which of my links are working in the best way.

There are a variety of ways of promoting eBay on your website. You can use the Link Generator, which allows you to create a trackable link to any page on any eBay website. So you direct your site visitors to directly relevant pages, e.g. if your web site is about chess, you can direct your visitors to chess sets etc on eBay.

There is also a Creatives Generator, where you can choose from graphic and interactive ads to place on your site; Widgets, including an Editor Kit, RSS Feeds, eBay To Go and API, for use by programmers to develop applications that promote the eBay marketplace. The API is probably only of use if you are a programmer.

However, eBay does provide a range of video tutorials to help with the basic setting up of links.

The eBay affiliate program is free to join.

Is the company UK based or international?

eBay is an American multinational company whose share price is quoted on NASDAQ. UK affiliates are paid via BACS in £ sterling once a month.

Click here to sign up with eBay. (Click the affiliates link towards the foot of the home page).